A student poses outside the United Nations.
A student poses outside the United Nations.

Center for Global Health

at the University at Albany

The Center for Global Health proactively engages with a wide range of partners around the world to create educational programs, collaborative research initiatives, and health promotion interventions to help solve today’s most critical global health problems.

We work in close collaboration with our College of Integrated Health Sciences faculty, partner organizations based here in the Capital Region, including the New York State Department of Health, and global partners from around the world to create meaningful learning experiences and to fund innovative collaborative research opportunities and program interventions focused on key global health challenges. The Center also plays a vital role in helping the School’s numerous international students as they integrate into life here at the university and into their new communities.

 

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Skills to be successful in global health
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Global health organizations
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Resources for global health opportunities

A Commitment to Good Health

Promoting and ensuring good health is vital not just to the growth and stability of individuals and their families. Good health is also vital to the economic growth and social stability of nations and the world as a whole.

At the Center for Global Health, we believe that working collaboratively across borders and cultures to address today’s global health challenges is an imperative of our time.

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News and Events
Empowering Students, Changing Communities: Partnering in Uganda to Improve Rural Health
Since 2012, UAlbany’s Center for Global Health has partnered with Engeye, a non-profit organization in rural Uganda, sending students each summer to learn from clinicians and community members.
GLOCAL Service Day
On April 18, 25 members of our College of Integrated Health Sciences community attended our GLOCAL Service Day at West Hill Refugee Welcome Center, working on community gardening, neighborhood clean up, and preparation of a foundation for a new shed that will be used to support food distribution and food pantry operations. This community service activity was organized by the Center for Global Health.
Connecting SUNY Global Partners
The SUNY Global Health Institute (SUNY GHI) and New York State Department of Health Global Health Collaboration held its annual conference at UAlbany on April 3. The Collaboration aims to foster connections and working relationships among SUNY GHI campuses and their global programs with the extensive public health infrastructure and scientific leadership of the state health department.
MD/MPH student Labika Baral’s Study Abroad Experience
Labika Baral is interning in Pokhara, Nepal with the Infectious and Communicable Diseases Hospital under the Ministry of Social Development and Health for Gandaki Province. For her internship, she is evaluating the implementation of the electronic medical record system.
MPH Student Evaluates Public Health Programs in Ddegeya Village, Uganda
For the past three months, Master of Public Health student Zari Ward interned with Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda, where she evaluated the progress and success of public health programs.
Center for Global Health
John Justino
Director
PB 0108D

Pinebush Building, 1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
United States

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